Clarion 1965-05-05 Vol 40 No 25

Chrismon Quartet lines up for "schmaltzy" prestentation at
Commodore Hotel Friday night. More mellow tones will make up their
repertoire at the Seminary Banquet the following night.
Vol a XL—No. 25 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 5, 1965.
Tri -Seminary Course Discusses
Contemporary Morality Revolution
Banquet Plans Near Completion
Classes Arrange Local Talent
The Freshman-Sophomore "Sounds of Spring"
banquet is scheduled for May 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the
University Room of the Hotel St. Paul. The dress
is semi-formal, party dresses and dark suits in order.
Tickets are $5.00 per couple and are being sold
in the coffee shop Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
preceding the banquet.
Kent Lundholm, who traveled with the Norman
Luboff Choir last year, will provide the musical
entertainment. Lundholm said he plans a half-secu-lar,
half-sacred program. On the secular side stu-dents
will hear "Till There was You" and selections
from the "Music Man."
Additional entertainment is planned to provide
"special surprises and laughs." Rick Welch will add
to the variety program by reading poetry. Mr. James
Jordon, Instructor in Greek and History, is the master
of ceremonies.
The presentation of a special award is planned,
but neither the purpose nor the recipient have been
revealed.
Dawson McAllister, committee chairman of the
Freshman-Sophomore Banquet, said the banquet is
a "nice social event, sort of a Senior Prom 'Bethel-ized'."
The committee is expecting a successful
evening with a turnout of approximately sixty cou-ples.
The May 7 Junior-Senior Spring Banquet is in
the final stages of planning. This year's banquet
theme is "Royal Projections." The semi-formal affair
will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Room of the
Commodore Hotel in St. Paul.
The cost of the banquet is $6.50 per couple.
Tickets are being sold by personal contact until
Wednesday, May 5. Then, for the late deciders,
banquet tickets will be available on Thursday, May
6, at the booth in the coffee shop.
In that the banquet is given by the junior class
in honor of the graduating seniors, a brief history
of the senior class is programmed. There is a por-tion
of the program which is not disclosable, but
a few not so royal hee-haws are "projected."
The Bethel Chrismon Quartet is providing the
musical entertainment. Members of the quartet are
John Halvorsen, Al Hawker, Stan Olsen and Dennis
Port. Their selections will range from "schmaltzy"
springtime pop tunes to sacred music at the close
of the program.
According to Sally Mattson, the planning com-mittee
decided against outside talent to perform
at the banquet. "We wished to make it a Bethel
production and are able to do so because there is
sufficient local talent on campus," she said.
Since it has been customary in
the past to bring in outside per-formers,
Miss Mattson indicated
some students may feel "du-bious"
about a "Bethel produc-tion."
Republican Club
Elects Officers
Thursday Night
Election of officers for t h e
Bethel Young Republicans club is
slated for tomorrow night, May 6.
The first of several YGOP activi-ties
scheduled for this month, it
will take place at 7:00 p.m. in
room 106 of the college building.
A brief business meeting will
precede elections. To be discussed
are a few constitutional amend-ments
and the creation of a new
post, state liaison. This position
would involve handling correspon-dence
with the Republican State
Central Committee and coordina-ting
club efforts in the Minnesota
Federation of College Republican
Club's activities.
Current president Gene Peter-son
cited the club's increasing in-volvement
in MFCRC activities as
a major factor necessitating the
establishment of the new post. "It
will help take some of the pressure
off the president, freeing him to
concentrate on club projects," sta-ted
the junior math major.
Positions to be filled include
president, vice president, secre-tary,
treasurer and the proposed
state liaison. Those who have not
already filed their declarations of
intent should do so tonight with
club secretary Barbara R.usche.
The club has planned several
activities in conjunction with the
other Young Republican clubs in
the twin cities area. Block working
for candidates in the Minneapolis
aldermanic races will receive con-centrated
attention. A car wash
on Saturday, May 8, and a barbe-que
on May 14, are two projects
planned to raise funds for finan-cing
campaign endeavors.
The MINNEAPOLIS CHORAL
SOCIETY will present its Annual
Spring Concert at the First Bap,
tist Church of Minneapolis on May
15, 1965, at 8:00 p.m.
The MINNEAPOLIS CHORAL
SOCIETY is a group of accomplish-ed
singers, from many churches in
the Twin Cities area, who have
joined together out of a common,
interest in presenting a high level
of sacred music to the public. In-cluded
in the group are choir
directors and many church soloists.
The Society was formed in 1963
and is presenting its second an-nual
concert this spring.
Some of the composers of the
concert music are: Randall Thomp,
In the present quarter Bethel
Seminary is participating in a new
experiment in education in the,
Interseminary Social Ethics Sem-inar.
Theological professors from
three seminaries, Bethel, United
(United Church of Christ), and Lu-ther
(American Lutheran) arrang-ed
the course with the approval
of their respective faculties.
They view the course as an
opportunity to investigate c o n -
temporary ethical problems from
the viewpoint of the traditions
represented, as well as to provide
a situation of interchange between
those involved.
The nine week course meets
alternately at each of the schools
and is taken as two hours course
credit by each student. Profes-sors
Clarence Bass, Bethel, James
Burtness, Luther, and James Nel-son,
United each fill the initial
lecture hour and lead the dis-cussions
of books in the second
hour.
In addition to the limit of five
students from each of these
schools, there are additional rep-resentatives
from Northwestern
Theological Seminary, as well as
son, Vaughn Williams, Flor Pee-ters,
Christianson and Berger.
The Society's conductor, Mr.
Bruce H. Leafblad, graduated with
a Bachelor's degree in music from
Bethel College of St. Paul and is
now the Music Director of the
Central Free Church of Minneapo-lis
while attending Bethel Theo-logical
Seminary. Mr. Leafblad is
the composer of one of the num-bers
for the concert and the ar-ranger
of several others.
Tickets may be obtained at the
Bethel Bookstore and the Dayton's
and Field-Schlick ticket offices
or at the door before the concert.
t w o recently graduated parish
priests from the St. Paul Roman
Catholic diocese.
The theme of the course this
quarter is "The Christian Faith
and the New Morality." In a socio-logical
sense the new morality
refers to the contemporary revolu-tion
in morality appearing in a
variety of manifestations. B u t ,
while this revolution is in mind
as an object of concern and study,
the course is actually concerned
to investigate the theological sense
of the phrase.
The new morality from the
Theological viewpoint is that
change from the more traditional
absolutist ethics to a modern
situational or contextual ethics
perhaps most popularized in
Bishop Robinson's controversial
College juniors who wish to use
the summer before their senior
year to prepare for post-graduation
Peace Corps service now may bor-row
up to $600 to help pay their
senior year school expenses. Loan
repayment may be deferred until
after Peace Corps service has been
completed.
The loan program, announced
today by Peace Corps Director
Sargent Shriver, is the product of
an agreement between United Stu-dent
Aid Fund, Inc. (USA Fund)
and the Peace Corps Volunteers
Fund.
Privately funded, the loans are
guaranteed by USA Fund, a non-profit
corporation providing loan
guarantees to students on 700
campuses, with the participation
of more than 600 banks through-out
the United States.
The loans are expected to enable
more than third-year college stu-dents
to enroll in the Peace Corps
Advanced Training Program, a
two-phase plan that provides in-tensive
Peace Corps training dur-ing
the summer months between
HONEST TO GOD. The purpose
of the course is to gain an under-standing
of the nature and im-plications
of this contemporary
development.
Accordingly, the subjects being
discussed are first, t h e ethical
postures of the three traditions
involved as well as generally the
idea of absolutist ethics; second,
theologians of the new morality
as well as examples of this kind
of action in the writings of Die-trich
Bonhoeffer, Paul Lehman, H.
Richard Niebuhr, Martin Luther
King and Bishop Robinson; and
finally, the implications of the new
morality's approach in selected
modern ethical problems including
automation, pre-marital sexual in-tercourse,
and war in the nuclear
age.
the junior and senior year, and
just after graduation. Many Stu-dents
who have had to work
during summer months now may
participate in the Peace Corps Ad-vanced
Program.
Trainees in the Advanced Train-ing
Program begin their Peace
Corps training in June. They re-ceive
travel allowances to cover
transportation to and from the
training center, and a living al-lowance
while training.
Selection for t h e Advanced
Training Program is the same
as that used for all Peace Corps
applicants, based on an evalua-tion
of the candidate's back-ground
as revealed in the Peace
Corps Questionnaire, Placement
Test results, and character ref-erences.
After graduation, participants
return to a training center for
eight weeks more of intensive in-struction.
Those who successfully
complete the final training pro-gram
then will begin their work
abroad as regular Peace Corps
Volunteers.
The committee's decision is sup-ported
by the comments of Mr.
Julius Whittinger, chairman of the
Music Department. "There is ex-ceptional
musical talent at Bethel
this year, and the male quartet
has a fine quartet sound. They
were chosen to tour the United
States this summer because of
their quality."
The Chrismon's first recording
is now being pressed under the
Christian Dynamics label.
Office Arranges
Student Housing
The Student Services office is
already busy arranging housing
for next year's students. Any stu-dents
who are looking for a place
to live next year are urged to pick
up their applications for student
housing immediately. They m a y
get these in the Student Services
office.
There will be an attempt next
year to have m o r e upperclass
girls living in Bodien and Hag-strom
residences. Rooms will not
be kept open for late-applying
freshman girls, but rather, these
rooms will be given to the upper-class
girls.
Housing at Bethel Manor or the
Honor House is open to selected
juniors and seniors. The school
is presently considering getting
one or two more honor houses for
off-campus housing. Whether these
will be open to boys or girls is
not yet certain.
Those students who wish to
live off-campus in private homes
or apartments will get a list of
approved housing during the sum-mer.
Off-campus housing must be
approved by the school. About 70
girls and 150 boys are expected to
live off campus next year.
Summer housing is also avail-able
through Bethel to interested
students. Both Bethel Manor and
Honor House will be open for sum-mer
residents. There are no class
restrictions for summer housing.
Applications for this housing
should be picked up immediately
in the Business Office.
Minneapolis Choral Society
Gives Annual Spring Concert
Peace Corps Advances Loan
In Return for Student Service
Page 2 the CLARION Wednesday, May 5, 1965
Sophomores Evaluate
Collegiate Atmosphere
Each spring the coming of fine weather seems to generate
a new wave of student planning and enthusiasm: picnics,
bicycle rides and water sports during the spring, summer jobs
or traveling, and academic projections for the fall. At Bethel,
and many small denominational colleges like her around the
country, spring brings serious thought by the sophomore class
on the advantages and disadvantages of transferring to a larger
school, a state school, a cheaper school, a more strictly secular
school, or a more specialized school.
Sophomore concern at Bethel runs along at least two basic
concerns: the atmosphere for creative thought on the campus
and the academic and social reputation of this college vis-a-vis
almost any other.
Any educational institution is perpetually faced with the
risks of truly educating its students: It is impelled by its own
intellectual integrity to conscientiously present all approaches
to truth. The knack is motivating the students to diligence in
their pursuit of truth through several disciplines. This task
is much easier when the students are convinced A PRIORI
that the search is possible, worthwhile, and likely to be well
received.
The claim of several of the departing students is that
Bethel gives verbal credence to such search but in fact provides
no such atmosphere: "I see things I want to change, but can't.
You keep so many of your ideas inside of yourself—this is
not good. It is understood that there are certain things you
just don't say."
It is the privilege, opportunity and raison d'etre of any
educational institution to emphasize what it considers worth-while
from the past: social patterns, religious institutions, or
philosophical viewpoints.
The key is not merely to provide these, but to provide
them in an atmosphere which encourages academic and social
integrity. Towards this many of the comments of dissatisfied
or departing Bethel students are well worth heeding: in-creased
catholicity with other colleges and universities, a
more polyglot composition of the student body, re-evaluation
of the present method of institutional financing and most
of all, more freedom to disagree on certain matters without
becoming suspect.
John Milton's words still ring true today:
A man may be a heretick in the truth; and if he
believe things only because his Pastor says so,
or the Assembly so determines, without knowing
any other reason, though his belief be true, yet
the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Zaa-Readell. 2,4ede 411MV
Sophomore Relates Experiences as
Spring Break Legislative 'Shadow'
Rolvaag Knocks Conservatives
DFL Gov. Karl Rolvaag accused
the Conservative majority in the
Minnesota House of "reprehensi-ble"
action on the issues of re-apportionment
and civil rights. He
said that the house leadership
which is handling civil rights legis-lation,
"produces only cynical in-action."
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Nasser said the United States
was trying to exert economic pres-sure
on Egypt, and accused Tuni-sia's
President Habib Bourguiba of
being a supporter of "Zionism and
imperialism" for advocating peace-ful
coexistence with Israel.
Pakistan, India Border Crisis
Pakistan President Ayub Khan
told India he was ready for
peace talks or total war over
the disputed border of the Rann
of Kutch.
New Third Party
The Congress of Conservatives
ended a three-day meeting in
Chicago Saturday, with a pledge
"to participate in the formation
of a national anti-Communist par-ty."
Among the new party doctrine
would be clauses for a break
in relations with Russia and the
east European satellites.
Criticizes Clergy
Harold J. Belgum, a leading Min-neapolis
churchman, accuses min-isters
of being unaware of how
the poor are treated. In answer to
why the Church has so little con-nection
with the poor, he says,
"It hurts the poor to be with
others who are not damaged.
The contrast is too great. The
forgiveness in Christ that church
members extend is too micro-scopic."
Dominican Crisis
The Soviet Union failed to get
an immediate meeting of the U.N.
Security Council on U.S. military
landings in the Dominican Repub-lic,
as the U.S. sent another 2000
troops to that Caribbean state,
bringing the total to near 5000.
To the Editor:
The latest maneuver in what
seems to be something more than
a cold war being waged by the
cooks against the students is for
the doors that provide access to
the daily repasts to be closed
promptly, if not BEFORE closing
time.
Such efficient barring of the
door is usually preceded by the
appearance of a guard two min-utes
before closing time. This
guard valiantly staves off the on-slaught
of the two or three stu-dents
who by some quirk of fate
are unfortunate enough to arrive
during that "no man's time" of
thirty seconds before and thirty
seconds after closing time.
On Tuesday, April 13, 1964,
four innocent students appeared
for breakfast just as the guard
was closing the door and they
were not allowed to have their
meal. One fellow managed to
get his foot in the door before
it closed only to have it forced
out by the guard.
The odd thing in all of this is
that the dining hall clock read
just a little less than a minute
before eight o'clock.
The ridiculous turned to the ab-surd
as the guard proceded to let
those still procuring food to exit
by Diane Carlson
Along with nineteen other col-lege
students from fifteen schools
in Minnesota, Barbara Rusche,
sophomore political science major,
spent three days during Spring
break participating in the Legis-lative
Internship Program at the
State Capitol sponsored by the
Minnesota Council for Education
in Politics.
Dr. Charles Backstrom, Univer-sity
of Minnesota professor and
director of the council, introduced
the program to the students select-ed
for participation at a Tuesday
night dinner, April 20th, and gave
them the only instructions for
the session: "Be aggressive to the
point of being obnoxious." In ex-pressing
his hopes for the trial
run of the internship program, he
encouraged the collegians to in-vestigate
the power structure of
both the House and Senate.
"I had almost expected a prop-aganda
session, emphasizing the
importance and merits of legis-lators,
to counteract recent bad
publicity about state legislatures,
but there was none. We were
free to discover what we could
and drew our own conclusions
about legislative process," Bar-bara
commented in a discussion
of her experience.
F o r three days, Wednesday
through Friday, the twenty stu-dents,
ten Republicans and ten
Democrats, 'shadowed' a legislator,
attending general floor sessions
and committeee meetings. Barbara
w a s assigned t o Representative
Walter Klaus from Dakota County.
"Although he was very busy, being
Chairman of the Claims Commit-tee,
a senior member of the influ-ential
Appropriations Committee,
and on the ten man conference
committee to iron out differences
between the House and Senate
Reapportionment bills, he was most
helpful. I learned much from him
about the power of the committee
system, and the importance of
one by one through the door which
s h e gallantly protected against
those who would enter from the
outside.
My only question is whether or
not anything is being proved by
this sort of action. I would re-mind
the cooks that (1) clocks
on campus might just vary a
little bit and that (2) food ser-vice
is just that, a service paid
for by the students.
I certainly realize that there
have to be hours but how much in
t h e way of time, convenience,
money and food service-student re-lations
is being preserved by such
ridiculously rigid adherence to ser-ving
hours?
Bernard E. Johnson
Harvie Thanks
Dear Editor:
I would like to thank the crew
of Bethelites who left their stu-dies
and busy vacation plans to
volunteer their time and effort to
the A.A.E.S. Spring Work Project
at Bethel Center on April 23 and
24. The constructive and unselfish
attitudes of the volunteers on the
work project helped to accomplish
even more than had been planned.
I would also like to thank the
Student Senate which voted to sup-finding
the 'right' authors for a
bill."
She found a "different flavor in
the two houses. The Senate had a
definite air of decorum which the
House lacked. The Senate pro-ceeds
more slowly and with a less
boisterous approach. It also oper-ates
more strictly concerning sen-iority."
The interns met with several
executive officials, among them
Governor Karl Rolvaag, Lieuten-ant
Governor A. M. Keith, and
state treasurer V a I Bjornson,
getting another perspective on
state problems and government.
Attorney General Mattson and
State Supreme Court Justice
James Otis shed light on the
judicial branch.
"Some of the most helpful ses-sions,"
Barbara felt, "were the in-formal
discussions arranged by one
of the interns who does volunteer
research work for several Republi-can
legislators. One night, together
with Bob Stassen, Bethel alumnus
and Republican coordinator for the
internship, and a few 'party- or-iented'
legislators, we hashed over
topics ranging from party designa-tion
to the problems and prospects
of the Republican party." She ad-ded,
"Of course, it was a closed
meeting."
Minnesota is one of two states
that do not have party designation
for Senators and Representatives:
they are identified as Liberals or
by J. David Patterson
Student Senate's Monday meet-ing
was conducted in the middle
of the campus on the newly ac-quired
benches which are now dis-tributed
throughout the entire
campus. The brave senators were
ocassionally disturbed by t h e
threatening glances of those par-port
this project and underwrote
the expenses. Pastor Glenn's advice
and the Student Affairs Office's is
co-operation also were much ap-preciated.
In hopes that Bethel can have
such a socially and spiritually
useful project next fall,
Kathy Harvie
Jessup Clears
Royal Record
To the Editor:
Bethel alumni would boil me in
oil were I not to correct an erron-eous
statement in the CLARION
of April 7. Contrary to the state-ment
by Ron Harris that prior to
1961 Bethel football teams "never
finished better than even for the
season," Royal gridders did record
three winning years during the
1950's.
The 1951 squad compiled a 5-1
record and the next year's team
posted a 4-3 mark. As members of
the Badger-Gopher Conference in
1958, the Royal gridders compiled
a 5-0 league championship and a
5-3 season record.
Dwight Jessup
Alumni Director
Conservatives. On the floor, Bar-bara
noticed frequent rural-urban
splits and interestingly, lawyer-non-
lawyer splits. One legislator,
commenting on the rural-urban
split, stated that almost anyone
who has any connection, however
slight, with rural communities
(even if he only visited his grand-parents
on the farm as a boy) can
and does use it to his benefit.
Commenting further on the is-sue
of party designation, Barbara
mentioned a "vagueness in some
legislators' answers concerning
their opposition to it." Freedom
from party directives or con-trol
was cited as a major reason
for maintaining the status quo.
However, she noted that caucus
discipline does exist. This is evi-denced
by the fact that almost
every bill brought to the floor
and recommended for passage by
the committee does pass. Being
in the majority, the Conservatives
hold the balance of power in each
committee. Barbara stated that,
"Fear of losing an office seems
to be at the root of much of the
opposition to party designation."
Barbara felt that the internship
filled two important functions: it
provided an excellent op p or tu-nity
for gaining insight into the
legislative process, and it gave the
participants a chance to interact
with other college students from
across the state.
ticipating in a water fight which
was in close proximity to the meet-ing.
However, the meeting under the
stars (so it was too early for stars,
it sounds pretty goad) continued
unabated. The first item of busi-ness
was to elect Miriam Carlson
for homecoming chairwoman.
The Senate further decided that
the length of the fund-raising
drive for each SPAN group will
be limited to one year.
Bill Madsen moved that the Sen-ate
approve the appointments for
next year's standing committees.
The appointments were approved
and the chairmen for the commit-tees
are: Academic, John Halvorsen;
Athletic, Dale Gilmore; Cultural,
Stan Olsen; Publicity, Bill Ledbet-ter;
Off campus, George Palke;
Religious, Dick Schultz; S o c i a 1,
Nancy Jo Fredrickson. The secre-tariate
was also appointed—cor-responding
secretary, Bonnie Carl-son;
recording secretary, K a r 1 a
Guston; agenda secretary, Lynda
Burgess.
The meeting was adjourned as
the senators found the water fight
far too close for any semblance
of a dry discussion.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL Number 25
Editor Bill Swenson
Assistant Editor Rick Yonda
Assistant Editor Barbara Rusche
News Editor John Halvorsen
Feature Editor Cathy Peterson
Sports Editor Ron Harris
Layout Editor Judy Malm
Copyreader Karin Berg
Office Manager Diane Carlson
Typing Manager Beverly Rusche
Photo Editor Don Bester
Advertising Manager .... Fran Malmsten
Advertising Assistant
Wendell Plucker
Business Manager
Gen. Peterson
Circulation Manager Linda Burgess
Adviser Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Letters to the Editor:
Johnson Relates Most Recent Incident
In Students' Cafeteria Fight for Food
Campus Co-ordinators Chosen
As Senate Convenes on Lawn
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titudes toward racial discrimina-tion
compared with religious dis-crimination.
Of his leaving the field of
teaching, Dr. Peterson c o m -
ments, "I regret it very much in
many ways. I have enjoyed teach-ing
in recent years more than
ever and have established ex-ceptional
rapport with many stu-dents
and colleagues. I will miss
very definitely the uniqueness
of the college situation." "How-ever,
I am excited about the
opportunities afforded in this
new position. It represents quite
another type of challenge, in a
field both vital and stimulat-ing."
Dr. Peterson and his family plan
to attend the Baptist World Alli-ance
in June and to spend part of
the summer securing housing near
Washington. He will assume his
duties for the Baptist Joint Com-mittee
on August 1st.
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by Nancy Appelquist
This summer will see the de-parture
of Bethel professor Wal-fred
H. Peterson to begin a new
position as Research Director for
the Baptist Joint Committee on
Public Affairs. Dr. Peterson, a
native of Moline, Illinois, has been
a faculty member since 1947.
He attended Bethel in 1943 at
the junior college level and re-ceived
his subsequent degrees from
the University of Minnesota. Also
part of his educational experience
was a year of graduate study at
the University of Washington in
Seattle.
Dr. Peterson began his teach-ing
career as a parttime instruc-tor
in economics, transfering to
the field of political science in
1948. While teaching part-time
he also served as supervisor for
the men's dormitory.
The Baptist Joint Committee on
Public Affairs functions as a corn-
Dr. Walfred Peterson
piler of information relative to the
role of religion in public life .
Headquartered in Washington, D.
C., the organization is active in
studying the position of govern-ment
as it affects the church, and
in making this information avail-able
to its Baptist member denom-inations.
As Director of Research for the
Committee, Dr. Peterson will con-cern
himself specifically with
questions of religious liberty and
the separation of church and state.
Part of his research will be in
areas such as governmental at-
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Page 3 Peterson Resigns 18-Year Position;
Begins Duties As Research Director
Bethel Students Participate
In Youth Center Project
by Kathy Harvie
On Friday and Saturday, April
23 and 24, 15 Bethel students
helped on the AAES Spring Work
Project. This is an inner city
youth center which became con-verted
from a Church about four
years ago.
According to Dick Pleeps, one of
the basic problems of the Center
is that it has not had one contin-uous
leader for as much as a yea
at a time. Dick is hoping to pro-vide
a stable leadership and a
continuous program. Starting this
summer and next fall, he will need
Bethel students who will steadily
contribute 2 or 3 hours a week to
youth work.
On Friday it was up to the stu-dents
to make the momentous
decisions as to what part of the
accumulated mess was usable,
historical, or junk. Volunteers
hauled ancient cribs out of cob-webby
basement closets, tossed
cluttered drawers, cleaned sun-flower
seeds from grills o n
1943 Sunday School records from
Bethel worn out and grimy, but
having a little more insight into
Both days students returned to
grimy stoves and lugged marble Baptist inner city youth work and
slabs from closets. In the base-human
nature.
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Park Benches appeared on campus Monday night and proved
to be a source of bewilderment to many students. Mary Thompson and
Phil Wicklund demonstrated the proper use of the benches for those
wondering students. The benches were donated by William F. Van Deist,
Trojan Equipment Manufacturing Company of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
tar Zibbep .
A synthesis of scholarship and devotion; this is the goal of Bethel
education. A person in whom faith and intellect, piety and perception
are merged; this is our desired graduate. No doubt we have all at
least tacitly agreed on this ideal.
We have vaguely set about to achieve it. But lest our journey
toward this goal prove ill-fated, let us examine our willingness to pay
the price to reach it. Let us count the cost. Two questions, I think, will
test our thinking at this point.
First, are we willing to let our understanding of the Christian faith
be changed by the honest demands of intellectual discovery? Often
we avoid a fair answer to this question by responding, "Yes, I always
desire my Christian understanding to be DEEPENED." Deepened? Yes,
this is a proper goal. But, will we allow this deepening to include
change.
Science, both natural and social, and the humanities are pushing
back the horizons of human knowledge. Many areas are being touched
upon which directly or obliquely encounter our understanding of the
Christian faith.
Discoveries dealing with biological mutation and progression, psy-chological
and social determinism, political and ethical change, religi-ous
insights of philosophy and the other world religions are but a few
of the intersecting points.
Do we stand open to respectful acceptance of rebuke and correction
by secular knowledge and discovery? Too often long-held and cherished
misunderstanding has been confused with the Christian faith. History
provides us with many examples of the church comically defending
a teaching it has later silently and with red face discarded.
A student says he has never seen where his academic discipline
challenges his understanding of Christianity. He has not, after long
hours of struggle, had honestly to alter a previously held belief. This
person is undeserving of the name "student" for he has failed to
pursue the path toward the goal of integrated scholarship and devotion.
A somewhat opposing question must be our second query. On the
basis of our prior commitment to Christian presuppositions, are we
willing to deliberately choose not to accept some of the propositions or
conclusions of intellectual discovery?
If we are, many will accuse us of obscurantism, of inconsistency,
of downright intellectual dishonesty. But reason is like a machine.
It will only produce what its programming and construction allow it
to produce.
In reason, presuppositions (which are inescapable) determine the
possible conclusions. Much of "secular" learning is built upon non-
Christian presuppositions. For example, a God-less presupposition can
only make naturalistic propositions about the scientific world.
Intellectual honesty does not demand the acceptance as true of
all "intellectual discovery," no matter what presuppositions it is built
upon. This is impossible. Chaos would be the inevitable result.
Rather, intellectual honesty calls for consistency within one's
own presuppositional framework. The choice of presuppositions is
a moral choice. When we set ourselves into a framework, we are
morally bound to judge incoming propositions by it. Unquestionably,
then, we as Christians, with Christian presuppositions, will be called
upon to consciously reject "truth" which itself rejects our frame-work.
With Christian presuppositions often in the intellectual minority,
are we willing to face the scorn of our 'learned peers' and say, "To
the best of my present understanding of the implications of my Christian
faith, I cannot and therefore I will not accept this proposition?" Are we
willing to be intellectual Martin Luthers and declare, "Here I stand.
I can do no other."
A synthesis of scholarship and devotion—are we willing to pay
the price?
ment, a huge table accumulated
stacks of old hymnbooks and
Bibles.
On Saturday, students pitched in
with neighborhood kids to carry
junk. Some of the youngsters were
tough looking and speaking char-acters,
but a number of them were
energetic helpers under the able
instruction of Dick Pleeps.
A non-breathing group of Bethel
students armed with scrub brushes,
soap, mops, and clothespins on
their noses invaded the restrooms.
A sneezing group emerged from a
sweeping assignment and some
water-logged scrubbers survived
the kitchen washroom.
The painting was great fun. A
few of the neighborhood kids
fiendishly rolled their partners
as well as the walls. It seemed
as if the paint purposely evaded
the protective cloths spread on
the floor. Very fortunately the
paint was washable, and with
a maximum of effort came off
of floors and out of hair, ears,
and sweatshirts.
with Ron Harris
Once upon a time there was an academy conspicuously located
across from the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. A path, on which passers-by
took their Sunday afternoon jaunt, was carefully trodden out to the
entrance of the school. Occasionally, one heard mention of the future
athletic teams but such comments were reserved for less flacid ears.
Some years later, athletic teams were finally mustered up from
the 25-30 hardy males on campus and Bethel began to make the head-lines—
unfortunately. Losses were frequent but, after all, folks lamented,
how can you expect anything from the "preachers?"
Well, things have changed. The old paleolithic age (excuse me
elders) has been ushered out and the neolithic has arrived. The Bethel
Royals have emerged as a small-college power, bringing words of
reckoning from the local schools of Hamline, St. Thomas, Augsburg,
Macalester and many more. Not only the midwest but national
audiences are beginning to realize that potential, as was evidenced
in the football team's first national ranking last year. The basketball
team has emerged as a giant in the past several years, winning two
Pioneer championships and whipping some name teams. But enough
for the "major" sports.
Accompanying the wonderful spring weather are a bunch of wonder-ful
athletes who are showing some fine ability.
The baseball team has compiled a notable 54 record, only last
week copping an important double-header from a strong La Crosse
squad. While running wild on the base paths, hurling beautiful games
and scoring lots of runs, the ball players promise a lively game to all
corners. Slugger Doug Kelley leads regular hitters with a .273 batting
average and southpaw Barnett Cox has a sterling .067 earned run average,
Paul Nelson, John Dickau, and Jim Austin follow the batting clip
with .250, .217, and .211 averages respectively.
The track team last week scored its best victory all year as they
decisively defeated Hamline and St. Thomas while tying for first place
with Minnesota-Duluth. The cindermen are strong in practically every
event with freshmen lending considerable strength to the squad.
The tennis team is off to an excellent start, defeating Morris 7-2.
Strength is the keynote of this year's team and tennis fans should
look for some good meets from them this year.
Anyone. who fails to support these fine spring teams is only missing
out on some of the finest competition in the Twin Cities area. Support
your Bethel teams.
Net Men Bow To River Falls Squad,
Whip Morris in Second Encounter
Sophomore hurler Barnett Cox shows the form which has lowered
his E.R.A. to 0.67. The Southpaw has picked up two wins in as many
decisions.
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The Bethel Royals baseball team
opened the 1964-65 season b y
downing a strong River Falls team
4-3. In the second game of the
double-header, River Falls bounced
back to cap a 9-2 victory. The win-ning
pitcher was Jerry Moulton
and the losing pitcher was Jim
Austin.
In the second of three consecu-tive
double-headers, the Royals de-feated
Pillsbury 2-1 behind the fine
3 hit pitching of Barnett Cox. In
the second contest, Pillsb u r y
bounced back to defeat the St.
Paul lads 4-2. The following dad:
against Morris the Royals dropped
the opener 4-0, then came back to
trounce the Cougars 7-4 with Jerry
Moulton gaining the victory.
The game at Hamline saw John
Carmean beginning ruling. In
the first inning Bob Nolin, soph-omore
veteran, slugged a home-run
to give the Royals a quick
1-0 lead.
Beginning t h e second inning
John Dickau walked, stole second
base, moved to third on a fielder's
choice and scored on Dwayne John-son's
squeeze bunt. The eighth
inning saw Cox walk, stealing sec-ond
and scoring on a balk. Jim
Austin started the ninth with a
single and moved to second on an
error. Several plays later, he scor-ed
on a ground out.
Unfortunately Hamline also did
some scoring, chalking up two
runs in the first, one in the third
and three in the fifth, to give
the Pipers the 6-4 edge. Carmean
received the pitching loss, although
he was relieved early by Gross and
later by Moulton.
The double-header against Eau
Claire saw the Royals finally
coming into their better games,
as double victories were hurled
by Cox and Moulton. In the first
Thursday morning, April 15, the
track team, traveling in four cars,
left school for the first of what
Coach Glader hoped would become
the annual spring track trip.
That afternoon in windy Storm
Lake, Iowa, Bethel lost its first
outdoor track meet to Buena Vista
College. After the meet the team
traveled to Arthur, Iowa, where
it had charge of the mid-week
prayer service in a Conference
church. Friday the team went to
Oakland, Nebraska, held another
service there and practiced at a
local track.
Saturday night they arrived in
Kansas City, Kansas as guests
of Immanuel Baptist Church,
where they attended Easter ser-vices.
Monday in Newton, Kan-sas,
Bethel beat Bethel (of Kan-sas),
a Mennonite school. After
practice in Newton Tuesday af-ternoon,
the team went to Otta-wa
University in Ottawa, Kan-sas,
spent the night on mattres-ses
in their gym, and lost a
dual meet the next day to the
powerful, numerous Ottawa cin-dermen.
The following week the results
of the strenuous vacation began
to make itself felt as the Royals
defeated both Hamline a n d St.
Thomas while tying for first place
in the quadrangular meet. T h e
s c ore was Bethel 611/2, Duluth
61%, St. Thomas 53, and Hamline,
29.
In the mile run Dave Norman
placed fourth for Bethel with a
time of 4:48.1. In the 440 yard
dash Tim Williams captured sec-ond
place with a clocking of
Wednesday, May 5, 1965
game, the Royals scored four
runs in the second inning to
jump off to a quick lead. John
Dickau was beaned, Paul Nelson
went to first on an error and
Dave Gehrke, Austin and Doug
Kelley all followed with singles.
Beginning in the sixth Dickau
started the action again, doubling
into left field and Gehrke drove
him home with a sharp single.
Eau Claire was never in the con-test
as Cox limited them to three
hits in the 5-2 victory.
The second game's action saw
the St. Paul lads running wild on
54.4. In the 880 yard run Ron
Stone and Norman placed third
and fourth respectively with
times of 2:05 and 2:07.2.
Bethel runners placed third and
fourth in the high hurdles as
Andy Lehman and Larry Peterson
turned in times of 17.0 and 19.3
respectively. In the low hurdles
Lehman copped first place with a
clocking of 27.7 and Art Dykstra
took fifth with 29.0. In the two
mile run Bob Chryst placed third
with a time of 10:45.7 and Norman
placed fourth in 10:56. The 220
yard dash found Dave Moss and
Jim Hammer turning in second
and third places with timing of
23.8 and 24.0 respectively.
In the field events, Bethel fared
well as Hammer captured first
place in 20 ft. 1 34 inches and Bob
MacDonald followed suit with a
19 ft. 51/a inches attempt. Lance
Leonard copped fourth place with
a 19 ft. jump. Bjork placed fifth
in the pole vault with 10 ft. 6 in.,
Williams tied for third place in
the high jump with a leap of 5 ft.
8 in. Jack Buss placed fourth in
the shot put as he putted 41 ft.
6% in.
Hammer captured his second
first of the day, the 100 yard
dash, in 10.2 followed closely
by Moss in 10.3 with a tie for
second place. The mile relay
team of Stone, Dave Dahlberg,
Hammer and Williams was
clocked in 3:43.6, good enough
for third place.
The next track meet will be
Saturday, May 8, with Wisconsin
University, Superior, Hamline at
Ramsey High School.
as was Jerry Tegenfeldt, 6-0, 6-4,
and Ron Sleiter 7-5 and 6-0.
In the doubles actions the only
loss came as Palke and Bob Peter-son
lost to Tuckson and Triggs
4-6, 64 and 6-4. Mark Smith and
Don Melander won their match
7-5, 7-5 as did Anderson and G.
Peterson 6-1, 6-0.
Assistant Coach Ed Carlson spoke
favorably of the team's progress
to date, saying, "The team could
go places. We're already looking
forward to tournament time."
the base paths, stealing eight bases.
In the first inning Austin, Dickau
and Nolin attained first on errors
and walks as Bethel scored three
runs.
A dry spell ran until the sixth
when frosh Al Selander singled,
Cox received first on an error
and Kelley again came through in
the clutch scoring both men. Sev-enth
inning climax came as Austin
walked and scored on Nolin's base
hit. Moulton, going all the way,
was the winning pitcher in the
6-5 victory.
Coach Cox, following the Eau
Claire game, remarked that,
"Finally, we began to come into
our own. Undoubtedly our speed
on the base paths made the dif-ference
in the second contest
and could continue to spell the
difference the remainder of the
year."
With nine games completed
sophomore Doug Kelley is leading
all batters with a .273 batting clip.
Nelson, Dickau, and Austin follow
close behind with .270, .217, and
.211 averages respectively. Stolen
bases total an outstanding 26 and
pitchers Moulton and Cox have
combined for the five victories.
The Royals' next game is on
Saturday, May 8, against the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, Morris at
Morris.
The Royals tennis team opened
the season with a loss against
River Falls, 7-2, but bounced back
last Saturday to decisively defeat
the Morris Cougars, 7-2.
In the singles action, Bob Peter-son
was victorious over Rick Tuck-son
6-1, 6-0. Craig Anderson de-feated
Pete Honnond 6-2, 6-3 as
George Palke lost a good match
to Bill Triggs 7-5, 5-7, 7-5. Gene
Peterson was the victor 6-1, 6-0,
Royals Split Three Double-Headers;
Defeat Eau Claire For Fifth Victory
Track Men Finish Spring Trip;
Capture Quadrangular Meet

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Chrismon Quartet lines up for "schmaltzy" prestentation at
Commodore Hotel Friday night. More mellow tones will make up their
repertoire at the Seminary Banquet the following night.
Vol a XL—No. 25 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, May 5, 1965.
Tri -Seminary Course Discusses
Contemporary Morality Revolution
Banquet Plans Near Completion
Classes Arrange Local Talent
The Freshman-Sophomore "Sounds of Spring"
banquet is scheduled for May 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the
University Room of the Hotel St. Paul. The dress
is semi-formal, party dresses and dark suits in order.
Tickets are $5.00 per couple and are being sold
in the coffee shop Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
preceding the banquet.
Kent Lundholm, who traveled with the Norman
Luboff Choir last year, will provide the musical
entertainment. Lundholm said he plans a half-secu-lar,
half-sacred program. On the secular side stu-dents
will hear "Till There was You" and selections
from the "Music Man."
Additional entertainment is planned to provide
"special surprises and laughs." Rick Welch will add
to the variety program by reading poetry. Mr. James
Jordon, Instructor in Greek and History, is the master
of ceremonies.
The presentation of a special award is planned,
but neither the purpose nor the recipient have been
revealed.
Dawson McAllister, committee chairman of the
Freshman-Sophomore Banquet, said the banquet is
a "nice social event, sort of a Senior Prom 'Bethel-ized'."
The committee is expecting a successful
evening with a turnout of approximately sixty cou-ples.
The May 7 Junior-Senior Spring Banquet is in
the final stages of planning. This year's banquet
theme is "Royal Projections." The semi-formal affair
will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Banquet Room of the
Commodore Hotel in St. Paul.
The cost of the banquet is $6.50 per couple.
Tickets are being sold by personal contact until
Wednesday, May 5. Then, for the late deciders,
banquet tickets will be available on Thursday, May
6, at the booth in the coffee shop.
In that the banquet is given by the junior class
in honor of the graduating seniors, a brief history
of the senior class is programmed. There is a por-tion
of the program which is not disclosable, but
a few not so royal hee-haws are "projected."
The Bethel Chrismon Quartet is providing the
musical entertainment. Members of the quartet are
John Halvorsen, Al Hawker, Stan Olsen and Dennis
Port. Their selections will range from "schmaltzy"
springtime pop tunes to sacred music at the close
of the program.
According to Sally Mattson, the planning com-mittee
decided against outside talent to perform
at the banquet. "We wished to make it a Bethel
production and are able to do so because there is
sufficient local talent on campus," she said.
Since it has been customary in
the past to bring in outside per-formers,
Miss Mattson indicated
some students may feel "du-bious"
about a "Bethel produc-tion."
Republican Club
Elects Officers
Thursday Night
Election of officers for t h e
Bethel Young Republicans club is
slated for tomorrow night, May 6.
The first of several YGOP activi-ties
scheduled for this month, it
will take place at 7:00 p.m. in
room 106 of the college building.
A brief business meeting will
precede elections. To be discussed
are a few constitutional amend-ments
and the creation of a new
post, state liaison. This position
would involve handling correspon-dence
with the Republican State
Central Committee and coordina-ting
club efforts in the Minnesota
Federation of College Republican
Club's activities.
Current president Gene Peter-son
cited the club's increasing in-volvement
in MFCRC activities as
a major factor necessitating the
establishment of the new post. "It
will help take some of the pressure
off the president, freeing him to
concentrate on club projects," sta-ted
the junior math major.
Positions to be filled include
president, vice president, secre-tary,
treasurer and the proposed
state liaison. Those who have not
already filed their declarations of
intent should do so tonight with
club secretary Barbara R.usche.
The club has planned several
activities in conjunction with the
other Young Republican clubs in
the twin cities area. Block working
for candidates in the Minneapolis
aldermanic races will receive con-centrated
attention. A car wash
on Saturday, May 8, and a barbe-que
on May 14, are two projects
planned to raise funds for finan-cing
campaign endeavors.
The MINNEAPOLIS CHORAL
SOCIETY will present its Annual
Spring Concert at the First Bap,
tist Church of Minneapolis on May
15, 1965, at 8:00 p.m.
The MINNEAPOLIS CHORAL
SOCIETY is a group of accomplish-ed
singers, from many churches in
the Twin Cities area, who have
joined together out of a common,
interest in presenting a high level
of sacred music to the public. In-cluded
in the group are choir
directors and many church soloists.
The Society was formed in 1963
and is presenting its second an-nual
concert this spring.
Some of the composers of the
concert music are: Randall Thomp,
In the present quarter Bethel
Seminary is participating in a new
experiment in education in the,
Interseminary Social Ethics Sem-inar.
Theological professors from
three seminaries, Bethel, United
(United Church of Christ), and Lu-ther
(American Lutheran) arrang-ed
the course with the approval
of their respective faculties.
They view the course as an
opportunity to investigate c o n -
temporary ethical problems from
the viewpoint of the traditions
represented, as well as to provide
a situation of interchange between
those involved.
The nine week course meets
alternately at each of the schools
and is taken as two hours course
credit by each student. Profes-sors
Clarence Bass, Bethel, James
Burtness, Luther, and James Nel-son,
United each fill the initial
lecture hour and lead the dis-cussions
of books in the second
hour.
In addition to the limit of five
students from each of these
schools, there are additional rep-resentatives
from Northwestern
Theological Seminary, as well as
son, Vaughn Williams, Flor Pee-ters,
Christianson and Berger.
The Society's conductor, Mr.
Bruce H. Leafblad, graduated with
a Bachelor's degree in music from
Bethel College of St. Paul and is
now the Music Director of the
Central Free Church of Minneapo-lis
while attending Bethel Theo-logical
Seminary. Mr. Leafblad is
the composer of one of the num-bers
for the concert and the ar-ranger
of several others.
Tickets may be obtained at the
Bethel Bookstore and the Dayton's
and Field-Schlick ticket offices
or at the door before the concert.
t w o recently graduated parish
priests from the St. Paul Roman
Catholic diocese.
The theme of the course this
quarter is "The Christian Faith
and the New Morality." In a socio-logical
sense the new morality
refers to the contemporary revolu-tion
in morality appearing in a
variety of manifestations. B u t ,
while this revolution is in mind
as an object of concern and study,
the course is actually concerned
to investigate the theological sense
of the phrase.
The new morality from the
Theological viewpoint is that
change from the more traditional
absolutist ethics to a modern
situational or contextual ethics
perhaps most popularized in
Bishop Robinson's controversial
College juniors who wish to use
the summer before their senior
year to prepare for post-graduation
Peace Corps service now may bor-row
up to $600 to help pay their
senior year school expenses. Loan
repayment may be deferred until
after Peace Corps service has been
completed.
The loan program, announced
today by Peace Corps Director
Sargent Shriver, is the product of
an agreement between United Stu-dent
Aid Fund, Inc. (USA Fund)
and the Peace Corps Volunteers
Fund.
Privately funded, the loans are
guaranteed by USA Fund, a non-profit
corporation providing loan
guarantees to students on 700
campuses, with the participation
of more than 600 banks through-out
the United States.
The loans are expected to enable
more than third-year college stu-dents
to enroll in the Peace Corps
Advanced Training Program, a
two-phase plan that provides in-tensive
Peace Corps training dur-ing
the summer months between
HONEST TO GOD. The purpose
of the course is to gain an under-standing
of the nature and im-plications
of this contemporary
development.
Accordingly, the subjects being
discussed are first, t h e ethical
postures of the three traditions
involved as well as generally the
idea of absolutist ethics; second,
theologians of the new morality
as well as examples of this kind
of action in the writings of Die-trich
Bonhoeffer, Paul Lehman, H.
Richard Niebuhr, Martin Luther
King and Bishop Robinson; and
finally, the implications of the new
morality's approach in selected
modern ethical problems including
automation, pre-marital sexual in-tercourse,
and war in the nuclear
age.
the junior and senior year, and
just after graduation. Many Stu-dents
who have had to work
during summer months now may
participate in the Peace Corps Ad-vanced
Program.
Trainees in the Advanced Train-ing
Program begin their Peace
Corps training in June. They re-ceive
travel allowances to cover
transportation to and from the
training center, and a living al-lowance
while training.
Selection for t h e Advanced
Training Program is the same
as that used for all Peace Corps
applicants, based on an evalua-tion
of the candidate's back-ground
as revealed in the Peace
Corps Questionnaire, Placement
Test results, and character ref-erences.
After graduation, participants
return to a training center for
eight weeks more of intensive in-struction.
Those who successfully
complete the final training pro-gram
then will begin their work
abroad as regular Peace Corps
Volunteers.
The committee's decision is sup-ported
by the comments of Mr.
Julius Whittinger, chairman of the
Music Department. "There is ex-ceptional
musical talent at Bethel
this year, and the male quartet
has a fine quartet sound. They
were chosen to tour the United
States this summer because of
their quality."
The Chrismon's first recording
is now being pressed under the
Christian Dynamics label.
Office Arranges
Student Housing
The Student Services office is
already busy arranging housing
for next year's students. Any stu-dents
who are looking for a place
to live next year are urged to pick
up their applications for student
housing immediately. They m a y
get these in the Student Services
office.
There will be an attempt next
year to have m o r e upperclass
girls living in Bodien and Hag-strom
residences. Rooms will not
be kept open for late-applying
freshman girls, but rather, these
rooms will be given to the upper-class
girls.
Housing at Bethel Manor or the
Honor House is open to selected
juniors and seniors. The school
is presently considering getting
one or two more honor houses for
off-campus housing. Whether these
will be open to boys or girls is
not yet certain.
Those students who wish to
live off-campus in private homes
or apartments will get a list of
approved housing during the sum-mer.
Off-campus housing must be
approved by the school. About 70
girls and 150 boys are expected to
live off campus next year.
Summer housing is also avail-able
through Bethel to interested
students. Both Bethel Manor and
Honor House will be open for sum-mer
residents. There are no class
restrictions for summer housing.
Applications for this housing
should be picked up immediately
in the Business Office.
Minneapolis Choral Society
Gives Annual Spring Concert
Peace Corps Advances Loan
In Return for Student Service
Page 2 the CLARION Wednesday, May 5, 1965
Sophomores Evaluate
Collegiate Atmosphere
Each spring the coming of fine weather seems to generate
a new wave of student planning and enthusiasm: picnics,
bicycle rides and water sports during the spring, summer jobs
or traveling, and academic projections for the fall. At Bethel,
and many small denominational colleges like her around the
country, spring brings serious thought by the sophomore class
on the advantages and disadvantages of transferring to a larger
school, a state school, a cheaper school, a more strictly secular
school, or a more specialized school.
Sophomore concern at Bethel runs along at least two basic
concerns: the atmosphere for creative thought on the campus
and the academic and social reputation of this college vis-a-vis
almost any other.
Any educational institution is perpetually faced with the
risks of truly educating its students: It is impelled by its own
intellectual integrity to conscientiously present all approaches
to truth. The knack is motivating the students to diligence in
their pursuit of truth through several disciplines. This task
is much easier when the students are convinced A PRIORI
that the search is possible, worthwhile, and likely to be well
received.
The claim of several of the departing students is that
Bethel gives verbal credence to such search but in fact provides
no such atmosphere: "I see things I want to change, but can't.
You keep so many of your ideas inside of yourself—this is
not good. It is understood that there are certain things you
just don't say."
It is the privilege, opportunity and raison d'etre of any
educational institution to emphasize what it considers worth-while
from the past: social patterns, religious institutions, or
philosophical viewpoints.
The key is not merely to provide these, but to provide
them in an atmosphere which encourages academic and social
integrity. Towards this many of the comments of dissatisfied
or departing Bethel students are well worth heeding: in-creased
catholicity with other colleges and universities, a
more polyglot composition of the student body, re-evaluation
of the present method of institutional financing and most
of all, more freedom to disagree on certain matters without
becoming suspect.
John Milton's words still ring true today:
A man may be a heretick in the truth; and if he
believe things only because his Pastor says so,
or the Assembly so determines, without knowing
any other reason, though his belief be true, yet
the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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Sophomore Relates Experiences as
Spring Break Legislative 'Shadow'
Rolvaag Knocks Conservatives
DFL Gov. Karl Rolvaag accused
the Conservative majority in the
Minnesota House of "reprehensi-ble"
action on the issues of re-apportionment
and civil rights. He
said that the house leadership
which is handling civil rights legis-lation,
"produces only cynical in-action."
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Nasser said the United States
was trying to exert economic pres-sure
on Egypt, and accused Tuni-sia's
President Habib Bourguiba of
being a supporter of "Zionism and
imperialism" for advocating peace-ful
coexistence with Israel.
Pakistan, India Border Crisis
Pakistan President Ayub Khan
told India he was ready for
peace talks or total war over
the disputed border of the Rann
of Kutch.
New Third Party
The Congress of Conservatives
ended a three-day meeting in
Chicago Saturday, with a pledge
"to participate in the formation
of a national anti-Communist par-ty."
Among the new party doctrine
would be clauses for a break
in relations with Russia and the
east European satellites.
Criticizes Clergy
Harold J. Belgum, a leading Min-neapolis
churchman, accuses min-isters
of being unaware of how
the poor are treated. In answer to
why the Church has so little con-nection
with the poor, he says,
"It hurts the poor to be with
others who are not damaged.
The contrast is too great. The
forgiveness in Christ that church
members extend is too micro-scopic."
Dominican Crisis
The Soviet Union failed to get
an immediate meeting of the U.N.
Security Council on U.S. military
landings in the Dominican Repub-lic,
as the U.S. sent another 2000
troops to that Caribbean state,
bringing the total to near 5000.
To the Editor:
The latest maneuver in what
seems to be something more than
a cold war being waged by the
cooks against the students is for
the doors that provide access to
the daily repasts to be closed
promptly, if not BEFORE closing
time.
Such efficient barring of the
door is usually preceded by the
appearance of a guard two min-utes
before closing time. This
guard valiantly staves off the on-slaught
of the two or three stu-dents
who by some quirk of fate
are unfortunate enough to arrive
during that "no man's time" of
thirty seconds before and thirty
seconds after closing time.
On Tuesday, April 13, 1964,
four innocent students appeared
for breakfast just as the guard
was closing the door and they
were not allowed to have their
meal. One fellow managed to
get his foot in the door before
it closed only to have it forced
out by the guard.
The odd thing in all of this is
that the dining hall clock read
just a little less than a minute
before eight o'clock.
The ridiculous turned to the ab-surd
as the guard proceded to let
those still procuring food to exit
by Diane Carlson
Along with nineteen other col-lege
students from fifteen schools
in Minnesota, Barbara Rusche,
sophomore political science major,
spent three days during Spring
break participating in the Legis-lative
Internship Program at the
State Capitol sponsored by the
Minnesota Council for Education
in Politics.
Dr. Charles Backstrom, Univer-sity
of Minnesota professor and
director of the council, introduced
the program to the students select-ed
for participation at a Tuesday
night dinner, April 20th, and gave
them the only instructions for
the session: "Be aggressive to the
point of being obnoxious." In ex-pressing
his hopes for the trial
run of the internship program, he
encouraged the collegians to in-vestigate
the power structure of
both the House and Senate.
"I had almost expected a prop-aganda
session, emphasizing the
importance and merits of legis-lators,
to counteract recent bad
publicity about state legislatures,
but there was none. We were
free to discover what we could
and drew our own conclusions
about legislative process," Bar-bara
commented in a discussion
of her experience.
F o r three days, Wednesday
through Friday, the twenty stu-dents,
ten Republicans and ten
Democrats, 'shadowed' a legislator,
attending general floor sessions
and committeee meetings. Barbara
w a s assigned t o Representative
Walter Klaus from Dakota County.
"Although he was very busy, being
Chairman of the Claims Commit-tee,
a senior member of the influ-ential
Appropriations Committee,
and on the ten man conference
committee to iron out differences
between the House and Senate
Reapportionment bills, he was most
helpful. I learned much from him
about the power of the committee
system, and the importance of
one by one through the door which
s h e gallantly protected against
those who would enter from the
outside.
My only question is whether or
not anything is being proved by
this sort of action. I would re-mind
the cooks that (1) clocks
on campus might just vary a
little bit and that (2) food ser-vice
is just that, a service paid
for by the students.
I certainly realize that there
have to be hours but how much in
t h e way of time, convenience,
money and food service-student re-lations
is being preserved by such
ridiculously rigid adherence to ser-ving
hours?
Bernard E. Johnson
Harvie Thanks
Dear Editor:
I would like to thank the crew
of Bethelites who left their stu-dies
and busy vacation plans to
volunteer their time and effort to
the A.A.E.S. Spring Work Project
at Bethel Center on April 23 and
24. The constructive and unselfish
attitudes of the volunteers on the
work project helped to accomplish
even more than had been planned.
I would also like to thank the
Student Senate which voted to sup-finding
the 'right' authors for a
bill."
She found a "different flavor in
the two houses. The Senate had a
definite air of decorum which the
House lacked. The Senate pro-ceeds
more slowly and with a less
boisterous approach. It also oper-ates
more strictly concerning sen-iority."
The interns met with several
executive officials, among them
Governor Karl Rolvaag, Lieuten-ant
Governor A. M. Keith, and
state treasurer V a I Bjornson,
getting another perspective on
state problems and government.
Attorney General Mattson and
State Supreme Court Justice
James Otis shed light on the
judicial branch.
"Some of the most helpful ses-sions,"
Barbara felt, "were the in-formal
discussions arranged by one
of the interns who does volunteer
research work for several Republi-can
legislators. One night, together
with Bob Stassen, Bethel alumnus
and Republican coordinator for the
internship, and a few 'party- or-iented'
legislators, we hashed over
topics ranging from party designa-tion
to the problems and prospects
of the Republican party." She ad-ded,
"Of course, it was a closed
meeting."
Minnesota is one of two states
that do not have party designation
for Senators and Representatives:
they are identified as Liberals or
by J. David Patterson
Student Senate's Monday meet-ing
was conducted in the middle
of the campus on the newly ac-quired
benches which are now dis-tributed
throughout the entire
campus. The brave senators were
ocassionally disturbed by t h e
threatening glances of those par-port
this project and underwrote
the expenses. Pastor Glenn's advice
and the Student Affairs Office's is
co-operation also were much ap-preciated.
In hopes that Bethel can have
such a socially and spiritually
useful project next fall,
Kathy Harvie
Jessup Clears
Royal Record
To the Editor:
Bethel alumni would boil me in
oil were I not to correct an erron-eous
statement in the CLARION
of April 7. Contrary to the state-ment
by Ron Harris that prior to
1961 Bethel football teams "never
finished better than even for the
season," Royal gridders did record
three winning years during the
1950's.
The 1951 squad compiled a 5-1
record and the next year's team
posted a 4-3 mark. As members of
the Badger-Gopher Conference in
1958, the Royal gridders compiled
a 5-0 league championship and a
5-3 season record.
Dwight Jessup
Alumni Director
Conservatives. On the floor, Bar-bara
noticed frequent rural-urban
splits and interestingly, lawyer-non-
lawyer splits. One legislator,
commenting on the rural-urban
split, stated that almost anyone
who has any connection, however
slight, with rural communities
(even if he only visited his grand-parents
on the farm as a boy) can
and does use it to his benefit.
Commenting further on the is-sue
of party designation, Barbara
mentioned a "vagueness in some
legislators' answers concerning
their opposition to it." Freedom
from party directives or con-trol
was cited as a major reason
for maintaining the status quo.
However, she noted that caucus
discipline does exist. This is evi-denced
by the fact that almost
every bill brought to the floor
and recommended for passage by
the committee does pass. Being
in the majority, the Conservatives
hold the balance of power in each
committee. Barbara stated that,
"Fear of losing an office seems
to be at the root of much of the
opposition to party designation."
Barbara felt that the internship
filled two important functions: it
provided an excellent op p or tu-nity
for gaining insight into the
legislative process, and it gave the
participants a chance to interact
with other college students from
across the state.
ticipating in a water fight which
was in close proximity to the meet-ing.
However, the meeting under the
stars (so it was too early for stars,
it sounds pretty goad) continued
unabated. The first item of busi-ness
was to elect Miriam Carlson
for homecoming chairwoman.
The Senate further decided that
the length of the fund-raising
drive for each SPAN group will
be limited to one year.
Bill Madsen moved that the Sen-ate
approve the appointments for
next year's standing committees.
The appointments were approved
and the chairmen for the commit-tees
are: Academic, John Halvorsen;
Athletic, Dale Gilmore; Cultural,
Stan Olsen; Publicity, Bill Ledbet-ter;
Off campus, George Palke;
Religious, Dick Schultz; S o c i a 1,
Nancy Jo Fredrickson. The secre-tariate
was also appointed—cor-responding
secretary, Bonnie Carl-son;
recording secretary, K a r 1 a
Guston; agenda secretary, Lynda
Burgess.
The meeting was adjourned as
the senators found the water fight
far too close for any semblance
of a dry discussion.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL Number 25
Editor Bill Swenson
Assistant Editor Rick Yonda
Assistant Editor Barbara Rusche
News Editor John Halvorsen
Feature Editor Cathy Peterson
Sports Editor Ron Harris
Layout Editor Judy Malm
Copyreader Karin Berg
Office Manager Diane Carlson
Typing Manager Beverly Rusche
Photo Editor Don Bester
Advertising Manager .... Fran Malmsten
Advertising Assistant
Wendell Plucker
Business Manager
Gen. Peterson
Circulation Manager Linda Burgess
Adviser Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Letters to the Editor:
Johnson Relates Most Recent Incident
In Students' Cafeteria Fight for Food
Campus Co-ordinators Chosen
As Senate Convenes on Lawn
ti
titudes toward racial discrimina-tion
compared with religious dis-crimination.
Of his leaving the field of
teaching, Dr. Peterson c o m -
ments, "I regret it very much in
many ways. I have enjoyed teach-ing
in recent years more than
ever and have established ex-ceptional
rapport with many stu-dents
and colleagues. I will miss
very definitely the uniqueness
of the college situation." "How-ever,
I am excited about the
opportunities afforded in this
new position. It represents quite
another type of challenge, in a
field both vital and stimulat-ing."
Dr. Peterson and his family plan
to attend the Baptist World Alli-ance
in June and to spend part of
the summer securing housing near
Washington. He will assume his
duties for the Baptist Joint Com-mittee
on August 1st.
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This summer will see the de-parture
of Bethel professor Wal-fred
H. Peterson to begin a new
position as Research Director for
the Baptist Joint Committee on
Public Affairs. Dr. Peterson, a
native of Moline, Illinois, has been
a faculty member since 1947.
He attended Bethel in 1943 at
the junior college level and re-ceived
his subsequent degrees from
the University of Minnesota. Also
part of his educational experience
was a year of graduate study at
the University of Washington in
Seattle.
Dr. Peterson began his teach-ing
career as a parttime instruc-tor
in economics, transfering to
the field of political science in
1948. While teaching part-time
he also served as supervisor for
the men's dormitory.
The Baptist Joint Committee on
Public Affairs functions as a corn-
Dr. Walfred Peterson
piler of information relative to the
role of religion in public life .
Headquartered in Washington, D.
C., the organization is active in
studying the position of govern-ment
as it affects the church, and
in making this information avail-able
to its Baptist member denom-inations.
As Director of Research for the
Committee, Dr. Peterson will con-cern
himself specifically with
questions of religious liberty and
the separation of church and state.
Part of his research will be in
areas such as governmental at-
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Page 3 Peterson Resigns 18-Year Position;
Begins Duties As Research Director
Bethel Students Participate
In Youth Center Project
by Kathy Harvie
On Friday and Saturday, April
23 and 24, 15 Bethel students
helped on the AAES Spring Work
Project. This is an inner city
youth center which became con-verted
from a Church about four
years ago.
According to Dick Pleeps, one of
the basic problems of the Center
is that it has not had one contin-uous
leader for as much as a yea
at a time. Dick is hoping to pro-vide
a stable leadership and a
continuous program. Starting this
summer and next fall, he will need
Bethel students who will steadily
contribute 2 or 3 hours a week to
youth work.
On Friday it was up to the stu-dents
to make the momentous
decisions as to what part of the
accumulated mess was usable,
historical, or junk. Volunteers
hauled ancient cribs out of cob-webby
basement closets, tossed
cluttered drawers, cleaned sun-flower
seeds from grills o n
1943 Sunday School records from
Bethel worn out and grimy, but
having a little more insight into
Both days students returned to
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Park Benches appeared on campus Monday night and proved
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Phil Wicklund demonstrated the proper use of the benches for those
wondering students. The benches were donated by William F. Van Deist,
Trojan Equipment Manufacturing Company of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
tar Zibbep .
A synthesis of scholarship and devotion; this is the goal of Bethel
education. A person in whom faith and intellect, piety and perception
are merged; this is our desired graduate. No doubt we have all at
least tacitly agreed on this ideal.
We have vaguely set about to achieve it. But lest our journey
toward this goal prove ill-fated, let us examine our willingness to pay
the price to reach it. Let us count the cost. Two questions, I think, will
test our thinking at this point.
First, are we willing to let our understanding of the Christian faith
be changed by the honest demands of intellectual discovery? Often
we avoid a fair answer to this question by responding, "Yes, I always
desire my Christian understanding to be DEEPENED." Deepened? Yes,
this is a proper goal. But, will we allow this deepening to include
change.
Science, both natural and social, and the humanities are pushing
back the horizons of human knowledge. Many areas are being touched
upon which directly or obliquely encounter our understanding of the
Christian faith.
Discoveries dealing with biological mutation and progression, psy-chological
and social determinism, political and ethical change, religi-ous
insights of philosophy and the other world religions are but a few
of the intersecting points.
Do we stand open to respectful acceptance of rebuke and correction
by secular knowledge and discovery? Too often long-held and cherished
misunderstanding has been confused with the Christian faith. History
provides us with many examples of the church comically defending
a teaching it has later silently and with red face discarded.
A student says he has never seen where his academic discipline
challenges his understanding of Christianity. He has not, after long
hours of struggle, had honestly to alter a previously held belief. This
person is undeserving of the name "student" for he has failed to
pursue the path toward the goal of integrated scholarship and devotion.
A somewhat opposing question must be our second query. On the
basis of our prior commitment to Christian presuppositions, are we
willing to deliberately choose not to accept some of the propositions or
conclusions of intellectual discovery?
If we are, many will accuse us of obscurantism, of inconsistency,
of downright intellectual dishonesty. But reason is like a machine.
It will only produce what its programming and construction allow it
to produce.
In reason, presuppositions (which are inescapable) determine the
possible conclusions. Much of "secular" learning is built upon non-
Christian presuppositions. For example, a God-less presupposition can
only make naturalistic propositions about the scientific world.
Intellectual honesty does not demand the acceptance as true of
all "intellectual discovery," no matter what presuppositions it is built
upon. This is impossible. Chaos would be the inevitable result.
Rather, intellectual honesty calls for consistency within one's
own presuppositional framework. The choice of presuppositions is
a moral choice. When we set ourselves into a framework, we are
morally bound to judge incoming propositions by it. Unquestionably,
then, we as Christians, with Christian presuppositions, will be called
upon to consciously reject "truth" which itself rejects our frame-work.
With Christian presuppositions often in the intellectual minority,
are we willing to face the scorn of our 'learned peers' and say, "To
the best of my present understanding of the implications of my Christian
faith, I cannot and therefore I will not accept this proposition?" Are we
willing to be intellectual Martin Luthers and declare, "Here I stand.
I can do no other."
A synthesis of scholarship and devotion—are we willing to pay
the price?
ment, a huge table accumulated
stacks of old hymnbooks and
Bibles.
On Saturday, students pitched in
with neighborhood kids to carry
junk. Some of the youngsters were
tough looking and speaking char-acters,
but a number of them were
energetic helpers under the able
instruction of Dick Pleeps.
A non-breathing group of Bethel
students armed with scrub brushes,
soap, mops, and clothespins on
their noses invaded the restrooms.
A sneezing group emerged from a
sweeping assignment and some
water-logged scrubbers survived
the kitchen washroom.
The painting was great fun. A
few of the neighborhood kids
fiendishly rolled their partners
as well as the walls. It seemed
as if the paint purposely evaded
the protective cloths spread on
the floor. Very fortunately the
paint was washable, and with
a maximum of effort came off
of floors and out of hair, ears,
and sweatshirts.
with Ron Harris
Once upon a time there was an academy conspicuously located
across from the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. A path, on which passers-by
took their Sunday afternoon jaunt, was carefully trodden out to the
entrance of the school. Occasionally, one heard mention of the future
athletic teams but such comments were reserved for less flacid ears.
Some years later, athletic teams were finally mustered up from
the 25-30 hardy males on campus and Bethel began to make the head-lines—
unfortunately. Losses were frequent but, after all, folks lamented,
how can you expect anything from the "preachers?"
Well, things have changed. The old paleolithic age (excuse me
elders) has been ushered out and the neolithic has arrived. The Bethel
Royals have emerged as a small-college power, bringing words of
reckoning from the local schools of Hamline, St. Thomas, Augsburg,
Macalester and many more. Not only the midwest but national
audiences are beginning to realize that potential, as was evidenced
in the football team's first national ranking last year. The basketball
team has emerged as a giant in the past several years, winning two
Pioneer championships and whipping some name teams. But enough
for the "major" sports.
Accompanying the wonderful spring weather are a bunch of wonder-ful
athletes who are showing some fine ability.
The baseball team has compiled a notable 54 record, only last
week copping an important double-header from a strong La Crosse
squad. While running wild on the base paths, hurling beautiful games
and scoring lots of runs, the ball players promise a lively game to all
corners. Slugger Doug Kelley leads regular hitters with a .273 batting
average and southpaw Barnett Cox has a sterling .067 earned run average,
Paul Nelson, John Dickau, and Jim Austin follow the batting clip
with .250, .217, and .211 averages respectively.
The track team last week scored its best victory all year as they
decisively defeated Hamline and St. Thomas while tying for first place
with Minnesota-Duluth. The cindermen are strong in practically every
event with freshmen lending considerable strength to the squad.
The tennis team is off to an excellent start, defeating Morris 7-2.
Strength is the keynote of this year's team and tennis fans should
look for some good meets from them this year.
Anyone. who fails to support these fine spring teams is only missing
out on some of the finest competition in the Twin Cities area. Support
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The Bethel Royals baseball team
opened the 1964-65 season b y
downing a strong River Falls team
4-3. In the second game of the
double-header, River Falls bounced
back to cap a 9-2 victory. The win-ning
pitcher was Jerry Moulton
and the losing pitcher was Jim
Austin.
In the second of three consecu-tive
double-headers, the Royals de-feated
Pillsbury 2-1 behind the fine
3 hit pitching of Barnett Cox. In
the second contest, Pillsb u r y
bounced back to defeat the St.
Paul lads 4-2. The following dad:
against Morris the Royals dropped
the opener 4-0, then came back to
trounce the Cougars 7-4 with Jerry
Moulton gaining the victory.
The game at Hamline saw John
Carmean beginning ruling. In
the first inning Bob Nolin, soph-omore
veteran, slugged a home-run
to give the Royals a quick
1-0 lead.
Beginning t h e second inning
John Dickau walked, stole second
base, moved to third on a fielder's
choice and scored on Dwayne John-son's
squeeze bunt. The eighth
inning saw Cox walk, stealing sec-ond
and scoring on a balk. Jim
Austin started the ninth with a
single and moved to second on an
error. Several plays later, he scor-ed
on a ground out.
Unfortunately Hamline also did
some scoring, chalking up two
runs in the first, one in the third
and three in the fifth, to give
the Pipers the 6-4 edge. Carmean
received the pitching loss, although
he was relieved early by Gross and
later by Moulton.
The double-header against Eau
Claire saw the Royals finally
coming into their better games,
as double victories were hurled
by Cox and Moulton. In the first
Thursday morning, April 15, the
track team, traveling in four cars,
left school for the first of what
Coach Glader hoped would become
the annual spring track trip.
That afternoon in windy Storm
Lake, Iowa, Bethel lost its first
outdoor track meet to Buena Vista
College. After the meet the team
traveled to Arthur, Iowa, where
it had charge of the mid-week
prayer service in a Conference
church. Friday the team went to
Oakland, Nebraska, held another
service there and practiced at a
local track.
Saturday night they arrived in
Kansas City, Kansas as guests
of Immanuel Baptist Church,
where they attended Easter ser-vices.
Monday in Newton, Kan-sas,
Bethel beat Bethel (of Kan-sas),
a Mennonite school. After
practice in Newton Tuesday af-ternoon,
the team went to Otta-wa
University in Ottawa, Kan-sas,
spent the night on mattres-ses
in their gym, and lost a
dual meet the next day to the
powerful, numerous Ottawa cin-dermen.
The following week the results
of the strenuous vacation began
to make itself felt as the Royals
defeated both Hamline a n d St.
Thomas while tying for first place
in the quadrangular meet. T h e
s c ore was Bethel 611/2, Duluth
61%, St. Thomas 53, and Hamline,
29.
In the mile run Dave Norman
placed fourth for Bethel with a
time of 4:48.1. In the 440 yard
dash Tim Williams captured sec-ond
place with a clocking of
Wednesday, May 5, 1965
game, the Royals scored four
runs in the second inning to
jump off to a quick lead. John
Dickau was beaned, Paul Nelson
went to first on an error and
Dave Gehrke, Austin and Doug
Kelley all followed with singles.
Beginning in the sixth Dickau
started the action again, doubling
into left field and Gehrke drove
him home with a sharp single.
Eau Claire was never in the con-test
as Cox limited them to three
hits in the 5-2 victory.
The second game's action saw
the St. Paul lads running wild on
54.4. In the 880 yard run Ron
Stone and Norman placed third
and fourth respectively with
times of 2:05 and 2:07.2.
Bethel runners placed third and
fourth in the high hurdles as
Andy Lehman and Larry Peterson
turned in times of 17.0 and 19.3
respectively. In the low hurdles
Lehman copped first place with a
clocking of 27.7 and Art Dykstra
took fifth with 29.0. In the two
mile run Bob Chryst placed third
with a time of 10:45.7 and Norman
placed fourth in 10:56. The 220
yard dash found Dave Moss and
Jim Hammer turning in second
and third places with timing of
23.8 and 24.0 respectively.
In the field events, Bethel fared
well as Hammer captured first
place in 20 ft. 1 34 inches and Bob
MacDonald followed suit with a
19 ft. 51/a inches attempt. Lance
Leonard copped fourth place with
a 19 ft. jump. Bjork placed fifth
in the pole vault with 10 ft. 6 in.,
Williams tied for third place in
the high jump with a leap of 5 ft.
8 in. Jack Buss placed fourth in
the shot put as he putted 41 ft.
6% in.
Hammer captured his second
first of the day, the 100 yard
dash, in 10.2 followed closely
by Moss in 10.3 with a tie for
second place. The mile relay
team of Stone, Dave Dahlberg,
Hammer and Williams was
clocked in 3:43.6, good enough
for third place.
The next track meet will be
Saturday, May 8, with Wisconsin
University, Superior, Hamline at
Ramsey High School.
as was Jerry Tegenfeldt, 6-0, 6-4,
and Ron Sleiter 7-5 and 6-0.
In the doubles actions the only
loss came as Palke and Bob Peter-son
lost to Tuckson and Triggs
4-6, 64 and 6-4. Mark Smith and
Don Melander won their match
7-5, 7-5 as did Anderson and G.
Peterson 6-1, 6-0.
Assistant Coach Ed Carlson spoke
favorably of the team's progress
to date, saying, "The team could
go places. We're already looking
forward to tournament time."
the base paths, stealing eight bases.
In the first inning Austin, Dickau
and Nolin attained first on errors
and walks as Bethel scored three
runs.
A dry spell ran until the sixth
when frosh Al Selander singled,
Cox received first on an error
and Kelley again came through in
the clutch scoring both men. Sev-enth
inning climax came as Austin
walked and scored on Nolin's base
hit. Moulton, going all the way,
was the winning pitcher in the
6-5 victory.
Coach Cox, following the Eau
Claire game, remarked that,
"Finally, we began to come into
our own. Undoubtedly our speed
on the base paths made the dif-ference
in the second contest
and could continue to spell the
difference the remainder of the
year."
With nine games completed
sophomore Doug Kelley is leading
all batters with a .273 batting clip.
Nelson, Dickau, and Austin follow
close behind with .270, .217, and
.211 averages respectively. Stolen
bases total an outstanding 26 and
pitchers Moulton and Cox have
combined for the five victories.
The Royals' next game is on
Saturday, May 8, against the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, Morris at
Morris.
The Royals tennis team opened
the season with a loss against
River Falls, 7-2, but bounced back
last Saturday to decisively defeat
the Morris Cougars, 7-2.
In the singles action, Bob Peter-son
was victorious over Rick Tuck-son
6-1, 6-0. Craig Anderson de-feated
Pete Honnond 6-2, 6-3 as
George Palke lost a good match
to Bill Triggs 7-5, 5-7, 7-5. Gene
Peterson was the victor 6-1, 6-0,
Royals Split Three Double-Headers;
Defeat Eau Claire For Fifth Victory
Track Men Finish Spring Trip;
Capture Quadrangular Meet